Lumberjack
Owen,
Unfortunately this might be as close as you’ll get to Bonfire ever again.
Duplicate Comments
OK. This should get rid of double posts in JavaScript-enabled browsers. Make this your new post button:
<input style="font-weight: bold;” type="submit" name="post" id="once" value=" Post " onClick="hidepostbutton(’once’,’hiddenR 17;);" />
Add this to your HTML head:
<script type="text/javascript\">
function hidepostbutton(id, newClass) {
identity=document.getElementById(id);
identity.className=newClass;
}
</script>
And add this to your stylesheet:
.visible {
display:inline;
}
.hidden {
display:none;
}
A little tweaking may be required to get it to play nice with Movable Type, but it works in my browser using just a sample page using current versions of IE and Mozilla.
One Year
Congratulations to Jed and Owen for consistently finding enough spare time to run an interesting blog for this long (and thanks to Wendy for her contribution in this regard) 
Duplicate Comments
I haven’t played around with it, but it should be easy to use JavaScript to create an OnSubmit function that would set the CSS style of the button to visibility:none. I’ll play around with it if I get the chance.
One Year
Well I had no idea how old the site was, I only discovered it a couple of months ago through a link from some other blog. I’m not a blogger and have no idea how you find so much time to devote to this site… but it is now one of the first sites I hit each day and I always enjoy the content.
Thanks for the hard work!
Mommy, Where Does Ice Cream Come From?
great. just when i want to know where ice cream comes from, i find this bullcrap.
One Year
happy blogiversary from Reader No. 3
May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been
the foresight to know where you’re going
and the insight to know when you’re going too far.
C-Murder Convicted of Murder
hell nah he aint do dat dumb ass shit he smarter tahn dat.
Lumberjack
Somehow I just feel obligated to leave this link:
<a target="_blank" href="http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Scripts/TheLumberjack Song">http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Scripts/TheLumberj ackSong</a>
One Year
Congratulations on making it this far. You guys are the best thing to hit the internet since Nigerian scam spam.
No, wait… let me try again… since porn.
There, that’s better 
Moms Who Get Away With Murder
At the end of the day, its the same old story that Women/Mothers can do no wrong at all, and it must be something to do with her being ill or some other excuse, maybe her husband ‘forced’ or ‘tricked’ her into doing it by going out to work and leaving her with the terrifyingly difficult task of changing a few nappies and looking after the household budget. Men are demonised and women are turned into saints and thus they will never ever face true justince for murdering their kids, the same way they dont for abusing children. Did you kow that more women abuse kids than men - they keep that quiet dont they??? Poor Mummy coudl never do anything like that!!! Ahh but Evil nasty ogre Daddy, hes a different story altogether. Its an evil double standard concocted by Feminazi’s and the modern Men Eunuchs to ensure that Women quite literally get away with murder.
One Year
Happy aniversary Jed, Owen… you gents have been a great read, and also a friend to my blog.
Congrats, and here’s to many more!
T
The Corps On CNN
I have the distinct priviledge of being cognizant of fish Formaneck’s existance. I wasn’t aware that she possessed the intelligence to have a political standpoint.
Don’t let CNN phase you. I never found the opportunity to scope out my upperclassmen’s political views, much less comment on them...I guess it just never came up when I was on the wall.
Texas Monthly on A&M
ps rev can be a mutt for all I care. Gimme a mean nasty mutt that bites people (much like the original) rather than a poofed up lap dog like we have now any day!!
Texas Monthly on A&M
I get as worked up as the next fellow, and I snorted and shouted out dissension as I read that article as well, but I don’t quite agree with you dave. Being a pisshead on campus I know a lot about what goes on right now. And you’re right about a lot of it. However, there is still a large part of the university that loves the corps and everything it stands for. I see a lot of the things changing as theyre happening, in the corps and out. My oldest sister is class of ‘00 and my brother-in-law is ‘99; I’ve been around campus for almost six years now. I’ve watched it change - from almost entirely non-greek to a fledgeling soririty and fraternity community (I’m dating a Delta Gamma at the moment). I’ve watched A&M;go from a school where I figured I could find my jeans-and-t-shirt angel, to one filled with highlights and abercrombie shirts. But I still think everything is going to be OK.
When it comes right down to it, Aggies pull it out at the last minute. We always have, and we always will. I think it shows a lot that this year there was only one non-reg candidate for both senior and junior yell, and both lost to the corps block. However, there are still a lot of things that need fixing.
The problem here isn’t diversity; there is no cultural or race requirement to be an Aggie. The problem isn’t the admissions system or the changing face of the campus. The problem really isnt even people not saying “Howdy!” or not showing up for Silver Taps. The problem here is money. TAMU system wants money, just like t.u. and tech do. TAMU has maxed out its ability to draw money from its students; the dorms are all full and the classes are brimming. So now they go for grants. The only way A&M;can profit more is to bring more grant and research money to A&M;. Thats what vision 2020 is all about. When it comes down to it, money is the root of all evil, even at my beloved school.
The main reason for this evil is that the intelligent elitists of the world do not see a need for the psuedo-religeon of being an Aggie. They can’t understand it because it can’t be quantified, typed, or defined. As the Texas Monthly drivels about, Aggies have morals and are generally neat, clean, and friendly. And the liberals of the world can’t understand that. They can’t understand and they can’t stand the fact that it goes on right under their noses. They push their liberal agenda all over campus and it infuriates them that it gets thrown back at them. So what do they do?
How do you defeat overwhelming odds? You even them, of course. If you’ve got a school full of second- and third- generation Aggies you don’t stand a chance at changing anything. But take away their advantage at getting in, and mix in more and more people that don’t know or care about being an Aggie and who refuse to buy into the system and suddenly you’ve gained some allies. Give money to hispanics and blacks and take it from the evil conservative white kids, and you’ve got it made. And its all kosher under the guise of “diversity.”
Eventually something will snap. Someone will not stand for it. A&M;will either whither and die or people will get pissed off and fed up with the crap and do something about it. Knowing Aggies like I do, I think the latter is more likely.
I’d love to hear the hollering that would go on in college station if the alumni collectively engaged in a financial boycott of things they didn’t agree with.
Vision 2020 can hang. When it comes right down to it, I’d rather go to a mediocre of 5,000 nasty yellin corps boys than to an elite school of 50,000 two-percenters.
One Year
Happy Blogiversary!!!
You’ve been on my blogroll for a long time, and I don’t have any plans on changing that.
And thanks for putting me on yours… although I’m not sure what being a fish means, I’m sure it’s a compliment.
It's all about the $$$
Resegregation? Schools across the Acandiana region of Louisiana haven’t yet desegregated. A judge is leading them through the process right now. Talk about the dark ages…
Lumberjack
*Wouldn’t it have been easier just to move the dish?*
You’d think. It was his idea, but it makes sense anyway. It’s a pain in the butt to get rid of all the needles and pinecones. Now we just need to pave the yard to get rid of all that pesky grass.
Lumberjack
And all this time I thought Leatherface was an Aggie…
Lumberjack
Safety schmafety.
What’s this wussy chain saw crap, O? That’s not very Aggie of you.
Lumberjack
I tried to get a permit to saw off the tree with an <a target="_blank" href="http://www.rt66.com/~korteng/SmallArms/50cal.htm">M 2</a>, but the city declined my application.
Lumberjack
Where are your safety glasses and hearing protection?
Where are the explosives?
Lumberjack
Wouldn’t it have been easier just to move the dish?
Lumberjack
More accurately, the guy next door thought his TV reception would be better if the trees weren’t right in front of his dish.
Now it’s off to the landscaping store to buy some shade.
The Great Skeedaddle
Wow. I’ve been reading through the trackbacks to the announcement. I’ve never seen something so heavily and universally bashed - and in so many languages!
I think that Six Apart is showing how to take a good thing and piss it down the drain.
Springfield XD
http://www.kyimports.com is selling .357 sig speer lawman RHT ammo for $160.00 per 1000. which is .16 cents a round. I bought 2K and it functions flawlessly in my Glock 32.
Texas Monthly on A&M
I’ve watched the A&M;traditions get whittled away, one by one, since the mid ‘80s. VERY aggravating.
Sadly, as has been the case at the service academies, VMI & The Citadel, Texas Military Institute and a hundred other similar schools, the “opening of the doors” to let ANYone in will ALWAYS cause the school’s core foundations to shrink.
Somehow A&M;has managed to hang onto some degree of uniqueness, despite going from an all-male, all-military, all-boarding school of mostly farmers and engineers to one where half the school is female, most students are civilians and many of them bad-mouth the Corps at every turn. Many of the girls join sororities and major in English or psychology, dunk their Aggie rings in some kind of frozen drink and wear them on their pinkies, and bellow that the Corps shouldn’t haze and (prior to 1999) that Bonfire was evil because it consumed a lot of trees. That was bad, but at least we still HAD Bonfire.
And then Bonfire was no more. I believe the loss of Bonfire may well prove to be the final straw for the weakened, shaky camel that’s been trying to keep Aggie traditions alive for so long.
I read the Texas Monthly article, and I know that no matter how many old Ags get fired up and tell Gates how stupid he is for wanting to turn A&M;into just another insipid, bland state university, he’ll never understand. And that’s a shame.
The funny thing is, the same goatee-wearing or belly-button-piercing UT-types who bemoan the presence of the Corps on campus still seem to want SOME of the traditions to remain. They like Midnight Yell, Silver Taps and Reveille. But it’s somehow lost on those morons that no one keeps ANY traditions alive at A&M;except the Corps. They want to come to someplace unique, and yet they don’t want to have to deal with the Corps on campus.
Oh, and they love to wave those Aggie rings around… as if they have some idea what they stand for.
It’s lost on them that the very thing that makes an Aggie ring significant was the commonality of experience. The whole point was, if you saw some guy with an Aggie ring on his finger in Wisconsin (for example), you right away knew a GREAT deal about that person, because you would have gone through many of the same things. Now it just means that you went to the same state school for four (or five or six) years. And in this 45-plus-thousand person degree mill that A&M;has become, the odds are good that you will have very little beyond that in common with the person you see with an Aggie ring on his (or her!) hand.
Soon the “down with conformity” crowd will probably push the AFS to allow Jostens or someone else to come sell rings to individual students, just like everywhere else. By that time it won’t even matter anymore. Reveille will be some transgender mutt from the vet school and Silver Taps will be a film they show in Rudder tower once a month.
But hey - we’ll be more “diverse!”
Arrrgh.
Licking
She’ll probably get drunk after the show.
http://www.channel3000.com/health/3279403/detail.html
Licking
Okay… fess up… how many people saw this and then tried to lick their own elbow?
That’s what I thought…
No More Crack!!!
Hey Owen… it’s comment spam. I got it, too. He won’t be back to see any response.
Now to the topic at hand… why is everyone making fun of my new home state!?!? At least Louisiana has good crawfish!
The Corps On CNN
I’m pretty sure that the real military uses “sir” and “ma’am.” I’m sure I will be corrected shortly if that is not the case.
No More Crack!!!
So?
Any good manager will tell you that it is vitally important that people get enough sleep, take personal time, and have clear priorities. Only piss poor managers expect people to work themselves to death.
Furthermore, when Bush, or any President, is away from the White House, they continue to work. They still have all of their staff with them and the ability to fulfill their job duties. Bush hasn’t missed a bill signing, official function, or meeting yet, which is quite a bit more than John Kerry can claim.
No More Crack!!!
President George Bush has spent more than 40% of his presidency at one of his three retreats, sparking criticism from Democrats that he is not taking his job seriously at a crucial time in US history.
Mr Bush was on his 33rd visit to his ranch in Crawford, Texas, at the Easter weekend, where he has spent 233 days or almost eight months since his inauguration, according to a tally by CBS news. Add his 78 visits to Camp David and five to Kennebunkport, Maine, and he has spent all or part of 500 days out of the office while in office.
Mr Bush was at his ranch on August 6 2001 as part of a month-long holiday when he received the briefing warning of Osama bin Laden’s determination to attack the US, which has become a focal point of the 9/11 commission of inquiry.
On Thursday the president watched his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, give her testimony on television, then toured his ranch with the chief executive of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, before giving an interview to Ladies Home Journal.
Regardless of what is going on in the world Mr Bush is usually in bed by 10pm and wakes at 6am. As governor of Texas he would be in work by 8.30am and out by 5.30pm. In between was a 90-minute to two-hour break for exercise or a nap.
President spends 40% of time out of the office
Gary Younge in New York
Monday April 12, 2004
The Guardian ARTICLE
Cool Paint Jobs
yo send more of those paintjobs those things are nasty
The Corps On CNN
I thought in the military that all officers are called “sir”, even if they are women. Am I wrong, or is it different in the corp and in the military (we Rice grads just don’t know anything...)
Cool Paint Jobs
I thought the picture is really good. Its interesting because no one else would think of something like it. Reall cool
Cool Paint Jobs
I thought the picture is really good. Its interesting because noone else would think of something like it. Reall cool
Patton's Speech
Actually, he got command of the 3rd Army in January of 1944, but was given command of a fictional army in England for purposes of deception. He didn’t go over on D-Day because the 3rd Army was a follow-up force instead of a spear-head. But he, and the 3rd Army, were in Britain at the time.
BTW- Please thank your father for his service. It is because of heroes like him that we have the freedoms that we do.
Doyle's Actions Ruled Unconstitutional
Yes, it will be for the good of the state if the tribes turn over 25% of gross proceeds, as they have offered elsewhere, rather than the 5% of netwhich Diamond Jim settled for, but it is obvious from the portion of the ruling which Owen posted that it was, in fact, about the law.
The justification for the racial discrimination in the current gambling laws is that the Indian Nations are sovereign entities, but doesn’t that fact make the campaign contributions with which they bought our governor illegal?
Springfield XD
Has anybody converted a XD-.357 to a .40? How much gunsmithing is involved? Can you chnge back and forth between the two? If any body knows these answers it would be much appreciated.
Troubleshooting
I’m afraid that I can’t be of any help. Our server has been fine since inatalling the update.
Troubleshooting
Hi, we WERE having the same problem RPCServ.exe on W2000 Server with Groupshield 6.0...so after finding this thread I patched with GS60PATCH1.EXE.
Thinking all was good after about 45 mins of monitoring the system process, I went to bed.
This morning I awoke to find that there were now several (4) seperate RPCServ.exe processes running, and one had gone back up to 50%...any help here?
Sig Arms GSR 1911
I just received my SIG GSR and boyyyyy is it sweeeet!!! I’ll be breaking it in with about 1,500 rounds. Also, I will use nothing but Winchester Q loads and Wilson 8 round mags. The combination is sure to be a failsafe one. I find Wilson mags are the best 1911 mags around. I HAVE tried them all! If anyone wants one or wants to hear my update after the 1500 round breakin, i’ll be posting it next week. Adios, from Guam.
P.S. 1st GSR on Guam
Duplicate Comments
Part of the problem may be that they think that the system has ignored their other clicks. Due to the brain-dead way some of the internet is cached WHEN IT SHOULDN’T BE, doing an update or refresh doesn’t always pull down the “newest” version of a page.
The only really useful thing that I know of to do is a bit of code that looks at an incoming message and compares it to previously accepted messages and rejects duplicate texts, even if they have different timestamps. Infopop’s wares, for example, do this with a message that says something like “This message has been rejected because it is an exact duplicate of a previous post by the same user, this can sometimes happen when a post is submitted twice.”
There does seem to be a growing problem with multiple postings (not just here); I wonder if it has to do with the various “speedup” programs for users, which are nothing but another layer of cacheing that could produce such “non-updating” updates?
Grammar Rules
I’ve always enjoyed the rule:
“There ain’t no word “ain’t” ‘cause it ain’t in the dictionary.”
Of course, now it is.
Russ Darrow's Response
He does look better on paper than he sounds in person, doesn’t he.
Brett Favre's Dad Dead
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Ol' Army
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